Interoperability framework for communication between processes running on different mobile operating systems

Abstract

As we live in an era where mobile communication is everywhere around us, the necessity to communicate between the variety of the devices we have available becomes even more of an urge. The major impediment to be able to achieve communication between the available devices is the incompatibility between the operating systems running on these devices. In the present paper we propose a framework that will make possible the ability to inter-operate between processes running on different mobile operating systems. The interoperability process will make use of any communication environment which is made available by the mobile devices where the processes are installed. The communication environment is chosen so as the process is optimal in terms of transferring the data between the mobile devices. The paper defines the architecture of the framework, expanding the functionality and interrelation between modules that make up the framework. For the proof of concept, we propose to use three different mobile operating systems installed on three different types of mobile devices. Depending on the various factors related to the structure of the mobile devices and the data type to be transferred, the framework will establish a data transfer protocol that will be used. The framework automates the interoperability process, user intervention being limited to a simple selection from the options that the framework suggests based on the full analysis of structural and functional elements of the mobile devices used in the process.